Shatzkin talks on Hachette vs Amazon:
http://www.idealog.com/blog/inevitab...ng-publishers/
From the comments:
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I do, and have in the past, agree with your assessment that the 52.5% of total income that the publishers have enjoyed in the past makes them look very fat and ripe for picking. As a Hachette author, I of course wish they would have spread that to us rather than leave themselves vulnerable to have Amazon pick it off. One way or another they are not likely to keep 52.5% when there are two other parties involved. Had they given more to the authors I do think that would have been a better way to share the pieces of the pie.
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